Christine Falls - John Banville

nIt was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living. n nQuirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid hierarchy--as Quirke is reminded of when he catches his well-connected brother-in-law faking morgue records. n nThe cause of this tampering is the corpse of a mysterious woman: Christine Falls. But who is she, and how did she die? Quirke's hunt for the answers to these questions will draw him into a transatlantic conspiracy, and pit him against some of Dublin's most powerful forces, from the Catholic Church to members of his own family. n nOriginally published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, John Banville's debut thriller reveals a new side of Ireland's greatest living novelist (The New York Times).n